カテゴリー: West Papua
Protesters dispute claim by Indonesian president Joko Widodo that order has been restoredIndonesia’s president, Joko Widodo, has said West Papua “has returned to normal” after clashes with police, a claim dismissed by independence protesters who said m…
The Free Papua Movement has been fighting for independence from Indonesia for 50 years, so why is there a big flare-up now?Papua and West Papua form the western half of the island of New Guinea (the eastern half is the nation of Papua New Guinea). The …
Jakarta cuts online access to Papua ‘and surrounding areas’ until the atmosphere ‘returns to being conducive and normal’Indonesia has deployed more than 1,000 security personnel to West Papua and cut internet access, amid days of violent demonstrations…
Large demonstrations and violent protests have taken place across the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua. On Wednesday, Jakarta said it was sending a further 1,000 security personnel to tackle the unrest, sparked by the arrest of Papuan stude…
Joko Widodo tells residents it’s ‘better to be forgiving’ after anger over mass arrests of Papuan students in Surabaya The Indonesian president has called for calm after days of violent protests against and by ethnic West Papuans.President Joko Widodo …
Spark for the latest unrest related to simmering separatist movement appears to have been detention of scores of Papuan students Protestors in the West Papuan provincial capital of Manokwari have set fire to the local parliament building after a demons…
Regional forum in Tuvalu ‘strongly encourages’ Indonesia to finalise UN visit to troubled provinceThe United Nations high commissioner for human rights should investigate the deteriorating human rights situation in West Papua within a year, Pacific nat…
Breakaway leader Benny Wenda will use meeting in Tuvalu to push for UN vote on Jakarta’s control of province Human rights violations and political independence in West Papua are set to command debate at this week’s Pacific Islands Forum (PIF), where Pa…
Climate crisis is more than a meeting agenda item in a host country that could be left uninhabitable by rising sea levelsAs the leaders of Pacific countries step off their planes at Funafuti airport this week for the Pacific Islands Forum, they are bei…
10 July 1976: Missionaries will be the only people with any practical expertise on dealing with disaster on this scaleThe major earthquake reported to have killed 9,000 people in the Baliem Valley area of Indonesia two weeks ago may have wrought a pecu…